in 1610) ; pres. by Sir Alex. Morrison of Prestongrange; coll. 7th and inst. 10th June 1642; trans. to Haddington (much against his wish, and in face of prolonged opposition from his parishioners) 21st April 1647. -[Acts of Ass.; Archaeol. Scot., i ; Row's Hist.]

1648 JOHN OSWALD, born 1660, son of Archibald O., min. of Pencaitland; M.A. (Edinburgh 1618); adm. to Second Charge, Montrose, 1626; trans. to Pencaitland 7th July 1629; trans. to Aberdeen 1641; trans. to Tolbooth, Edinburgh, 1643; pres. by Sir Alexander Morrison of Prestongrange 15th Dec. 1647; trans. and adm. 12th April 1648; died April 1653. He marr. (1) Katherine (died in 1639), daugh. of John Forbes, min. at Delft: (2) 1644, Dorothea Gray, and had issue Richard, bapt. 14th Jan. 1645; -Marion; Robert; William. -[Reg. (Bapt.), Tombst., Lumsden's -House of Forbes; Reg. Old Dec., ii.; Lamont's Diary; Inq. Ret. Gen., 3581.]

1654 PATRICK COOK, born 21st July 1626, son of Patrick C., min. of Stenton; called 24th Nov. 1653 (being freed of his previous acceptance of Whittingehame); ord. 23rd Feb. 1654. He was one of the preachers ironically styled " the Bishop's Evangelists “; died in Aug. 1672. He marr. Margaret Cockburn, who survived him, and had issue - Margaret; Archibald; John; Helen, bapt. 1st Oct. 1665; Patrick; Grisell (marr., pro. 26th Jan. 1695, John Hay, factor to Countess of Wemyss: Canongate Reg.); Jean (marr. Aug. 1696, William Johnston of Corehead); Elizabeth. - [Kirkton's, Burnet's, and Wodrow's Mists. ; Inq. Ret. Gen., 5976; Fountainhall's Dec., ii.; Halkerston's marr. Law.]

1673 GEORGE MONYPENNY, ord. a Presbyter in England; adm. and inst. 20th Nov. 1673; died in Nov. 1675. He left a son, William, M.A., Edinburgh.

1676 JAMES BUCHAN, M.A.; trans. from Skirling; inst. before 17th Sept. 1676; deprived for refusing the Test 1681. A riot occurred, 26th Feb. 1682,

when Brown, schoolmaster, by direction of the Bishop, was - supplying the pulpit, in consequence of which the Privy Council fined Sir William Hamilton 1800 merks for looking on and laughing; Sir Alex. Morrison of Prestongrange, the patron, 900 merks, and the other heritors and portioners 4000 merks, for not preventing the disturbance. [Afterwards min. of Eddleston.]-[Wodrow's Hist.; Fountainhall's Dec., i.]

1682 ROBERT RAMSAY, son of James, Bishop of Dunblane; M.A. (Edinburgh 1668); licen. by Alexander, Bishop of Edinburgh, 21st May 1673; adm. to Port of Menteith, 26th Jan. 1682; trans. and adm. 19th Oct. 1682; deprived by the Committee of Estates 10th May 1689. He made his residence in the Canongate, Edinburgh, where he died in 1699, aged about 51. He marr. 12th Nov. 1685, Elizabeth, daugh .of William Penman, min. of Morebattle, who survived him, and had issue-James; Robert; William; Mary. - [Edin. Reg. (Bapt. and Marr.); MS. Acc. of Min., 1689; Acts Parl., ix.; Inq. Ret. Gen., 6798.]

1687 JOHN MONCREIFF, M.A.; was adm. 21st Oct. 1687 to the Meeting-House, and to the Church before 26th May 1689; trans. to Trinity Parish, Edinburgh, 5th May 1692. -[Wodrow's Hist.; Reg. Gen. Ass., and Old Dec., ii.]

1694 GEORGE ANDREWS, M.A.; trans. from Tarbolton, and adm. 10th Oct. 1694; trans. to New North Parish, Edinburgh, 8th Nov. 1699.

1702 ROBERT HORSBURGH, a native of Peeblesshire; M.A. (Edinburgh, 28th June 1690) ; ord. to Glenholm 24th Sept. 1696 ; trans. and adm. 29th April 1702, after a protracted vacancy. He complained of the church being unsafe owing to coal wastes beneath, and for one months the congregation were obliged to meet in a barn at Preston. Repairs were executed after long litigation. He died 25th March 1724, aged about 54. He marr. Janet Somervail, and had issue-Janet (marr. 19th Jan. 1735, James Heriot, Castlemains,